Since 1989 Schaeffer Precision Alignment has been providing alignment services for companies all over the United States. While our professional and high standards are a big part of why our clients continue to call us year after year, many companies enjoy the convenience of having a precision alignment company ready to assist during a machinery installation or maintenance shutdown just one phone call away.

While many service calls are scheduled months in advance, we take pride in the fact that we are able to respond from coast to coast the moment your machine needs optical or laser alignment. We have the resources available, to take our metrology equipment in some of the most extreme situations. We’ve successfully aligned machinery in hot and cold environments. Our extensive experience in such a wide variety of conditions has proven over and over that we can align anything, no matter the circumstances, we have the tools to perform the job no matter the setting.

Since day one, we’ve put millions of dollars into constructing a large collection of metrology tools are are ready to move at a moment’s notice. We are a service company on the move and no matter where your alignment needs might be we are able to provide the alignment services you need.

Schaeffer Precision Alignment uses laser tracker and optical alignment methods to achieve the precise measurements. Contact us today and discover the wide variety of applications that a professional metrologist from Schaeffer Precision Alignment can use to make your equipment run more efficiently.

The words “Laser Tracker” don’t do much to help many people understand our dimensional metrology services, so for this blog post we are going to help you better understand how we can achieve some precision even when we are not working in a laboratory or even a controlled environment.

1. Control Points
   We are able to construct stable control points scattered throughout our working space. These points are placed in such a way that they fully surround the area in which the alignment is taking place. As the measurement process takes place, we refer back to these control points confirming that the readings we are getting are checked against our original data. Upon completion of the project we always close the loop, confirming a final degree of measurement error by checking back into these control points. Often the level of error is about one thousandth of an inch, well below the tolerance of most machine installations!
2. Independent of Gravity
   Most people think of “up” and “down” in reference to gravity, but with our dimensional metrology equipment we are never restricted to the orientation of gravity. We can measure things that are suspended above the ground or even things that are installed vertically. For example, in the power industry, turbine alignment can not be calculated using gravity because the third axis is not level according to the world. Instead it depends on the orientation of the bore, which has nothing to do with gravity, thus it is a floating orientation.
3. Digital Data
   Different from optical alignment, which is gathered using mechanical processes, our laser tracker method uses a laser to interact with your machinery. The tracker stays stationary and feeds data, read by a reflecting prism, back to a computer, which then processes that data into a three dimensional software designed to help us make fast alignment calculations. The digital process means your data is gathered faster and the alignment process takes less time to perform.

Schaeffer Precision Alignment uses laser tracker and optical alignment methods to achieve the precise measurements. Contact us today and discover the wide variety of applications that a professional metrologist from Schaeffer Precision Alignment can use to make your equipment run more efficiently.

Welcome to the new Schaeffer Precision Alignment blog. This blog is dedicated to discussing industrial alignment techniques and methods as well as news in the science of metrology.

Metrology (me·trol·o·gy) is the scientific study of measurement. Metrologists perform metrology work involving precision measurement and comparison of physical quantities such as mass, length, time, force, speed, voltage and current. They calibrate precision equipment which measures these physical units. They may also certify that outside standards of such quantities as mass and volume are correct.

When your machinery is not aligned properly, no matter its purpose, you are losing time and money. At Schaeffer Precision Alignment we use the highly technical tools like our Laser Tracker Services provide long lasting, precise alignment methods that not only save your company money over time, but it often results in higher machine productivity.

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